Billboard:

Songs of the Year, 1958-2022

Each year since the inception of the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine has named a “song of the year” determined by chart performance. Here are those songs from 1958 to present.

Check out other “songs of the year” lists here.

2022: Glass Animals “Heat Waves”
2021: Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating”
2020: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
2019: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
2018: Drake “God’s Plan”
2017: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
2016: Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
2015: Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass”
2014: Pharrell Williams “Happy”
2013: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop”
2012: Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know”
2011: Adele “Rolling in the Deep”
2010: Ke$ha “Tik Tok”
2009: Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow”
2008: Flo Rida with T-Pain “Low”
2007: Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”
2006: Daniel Powter “Bad Day”
2005: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
2004: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
2003: 50 Cent “In Da Club”
2002: Nickelback “How You Remind Me”
2001: Lifehouse “Hanging by a Moment”
2000: Faith Hill “Breathe”
1999: Cher “Believe”
1998: Next “Too Close”
1997: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)”
1996: Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
1995: Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise”
1994: Ace of Base “The Sign”
1993: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
1992: Boyz II Men “End of the Road”
1991: Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”
1990: Wilson Phillips “Hold On”
1989: Chicago “Look Away”
1988: George Michael “Faith”
1987: Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian”
1986: Dionne & Friends “That's What Friends Are For”
1985: George Michael “Careless Whisper”
1984: Prince “When Doves Cry”
1983: The Police “Every Breath You Take”
1982: Olivia Newton-John “Physical”
1981: Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes”
1980: Blondie “Call Me”
1979: The Knack “My Sharona”
1978: Andy Gibb “Shadow Dancing”
1977: Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
1976: Paul McCartney & Wings “Silly Love Songs”
1975: Captain & Tennille “Love Will Keep Us Together”
1974: Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were”
1973: Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”
1972: Roberta Flack “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
1971: Three Dog Night “Joy to the World”
1970: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
1969: The Archies “Sugar, Sugar”
1968: The Beatles “Hey Jude”
1967: Lulu “To Sir with Love”
1966: SSgt Barry Sadler “The Ballad of the Green Berets”
1965: Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully”
1964: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
1963: Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs “Sugar Shack”
1962: Mr. Acker Bilk “Stranger on the Shore”
1961: Bobby Lewis “Tossin’ and Turnin’”
1960: Percy Faith “Theme from “A Summer Place”
1959: Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans”
1958: Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)”

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Year’ lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “Billboard: Best-of Lists”

First posted 12/29/2014; last updated 12/10/2022.

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Billboard - Songs of the Year, 1958-2022

Billboard:

Songs of the Year, 1958-2022

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